The challenge ran from January 9 to 14, but people seemed to really enjoy it, so I’m leaving it up, with automated email prompts to walk you through the process of setting up your Go-To List and share some heart-healthy recipes to get the ball rolling. Wait. Tell me more.…
Every year I update and share the same holiday gift idea list based on my favourite trusted kitchen tools with links to Amazon or other major retailers for easy shopping. But this year it feels like (1) we need some fresh ideas! and (2) we must focus our holiday spending on local businesses, since…
Does it feel to you like COVID-19 is everywhere all of a sudden? Scores of people I know are either testing positive, learning that they may have been exposed, or sharing such stories about their family and friends. News reports that case numbers are rising exponentially are starting to feel…
Moving our bodies is as important for heart health as nourishing them, but in winter, it’s not quite as easy is it? Most of us are less active than in the warmer months, with understandable concerns about slipping, falling and maybe freezing our eyelashes! This year people living with heart…
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu Given what’s happening in the world, we don’t need another post today about what to eat. Given that my purpose here is to help people live longer, healthier lives, what this…
In 2012, having returned to work after my second maternity leave, my babies finally became good sleepers and I went the other way. Ironically, after years of four years of yearning for them to just let me sleep, they did, but I couldn’t. It wasn’t for lack of trying. As…
A few weeks after people download my guide to eating after a cardiac event , I ask them what they find hardest about eating now, so I can continue to write helpful content. One reader replied, “The saboteurs! Oh just have a little of this or that or whatever and it’s hard to ward off all the do-gooders!” …
Black Friday is tomorrow, which is generally my reminder to get it together and start gift planning. Perhaps you organized people are done or even started, but for the rest of us slowpokes, it’s time! So to help you with the cooks in your life, here are 15 of my…